Stories From 1916 Podcast

Stories From 1916 Podcast

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  • 029 - Eugene Bratton
    Eugene Bratton was a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary who served in Meath. Having fought at the Battle of Ashbourne, and then seeing first hand the atrocities committed by the Black and Tans, he began to reconsider his allegiances.
    Thanks to actor Conor Madden for reading extract from Bratton's BMH Witness Statement.
    12 min
  • 028 - Barry's Hotel
    Barry's Hotel was one of the early focal points of the Irish Civil War. The hotel's story, and that of the war itself, is told through the eyes of its owner, Annie Farrington; letters sent by Liam Lynch to his brother; and historian Padraig Yeates, who has a personal family connection to the skirmish that occurred around the hotel.
    Many thanks to IMPACT Work & Life Magazine for the Pádraig Yeates section.
    11 min
  • 027 - Phyllis Morkan
    Phyllis Morkan's Easter Sunday dinner party was disrupted when the men were called away to a meeting that heralded the beginning of the Easter Rising. During the week that followed, she tended to wounded volunteers at Church Street, which saw some of the heaviest fighting of the week.
    8 min
  • 026 - Albert Mitchell
    Albert Mitchell was drawn into the action during Easter 1916 when he volunteered to drive an ambulance around the blood-stained streets of Dublin. He saw the action from all sides, and encountered The O'Rahilly dying on Moore Street, but was powerless to help.
    9 min
  • 025 - Maud Gonne
    Maud Gonne gives a personal account of her transformation from carefree society girl to radical political and feminist activist.
    The recording is held by the Bureau of Military History.
    11 min
  • 024 - Patrick Holahan
    Patrick Holahan was an officer in Na Fianna Eireann, and joined the Irish Volunteers in the Easter Rising. He tells the story of the raid on the magazine fort in the Phoenix Park, which marked the beginning of the Rising.
    His son Sean reads his statement here, and discusses his memories of his father.
    9 min
  • 023 – Joe Guilfoyle
    Joe Guilfoyle offers a softly spoken and lighthearted look back on the Easter Rising and some of his experiences during it. His casual account of the time belies the chaos and killing of the time however, something he would have been all too familiar with.
    7 min
  • 022 - Robert Monteith
    Captain Robert Monteith had a distinguished career in the British Army, but later became a dedicated nationalist. As an Irish Volunteer, he joined Roger Casement in his mission to found an Irish Brigade in Germany, and land a shipment of arms off the coast of Kerry for the Easter Rising. This is his story.
    11 min
  • 021 - Paddy Rankin
    Patrick Rankin made the trip from Newry to Dublin by bicycle to fight in the Easter Rising - but that was just the beginning of his journey in the name of Irish republicanism...
    10 min
  • 020 - Tom Byrne's Escape
    The second part of our look at Tom 'The Boer' Byrne's life looks at his daring escape from Rath Camp in the Curragh, Co. Kildare during the War of Independence. His grandson Conor O'Leary reads from his account of the escapade.
    7 min

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The Stories From 1916 Podcast tells the less well-known stories from Ireland's revolutionary period. We use first hand accounts and archive material to tell the stories of ordinary men and women who did extra-ordinary things during this interesting period in Irish history.